[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 153366] New Main LibreOffice Icons Are a Complete Failure!

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153366

--- Comment #6 from BrendaEM <brendieellen at brenda-make.com> ---
The icons are broken if most users cannot immediately identify what they are
trying to convey. In the new icon set, about 1/2 of the space is wasted and
blank. Indeed, many icons are checked for various resolutions, and while
nothing is "perfect," these icons don't work when they are small because they
waste too much space for a given resolution. 

Did you put the new icons against the old ones in the poll?

Color should not be the only identifier for an icon, as 1:12 people are
color-blind. Ref: https://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/

I don't know if people will really be baffled... Do they look that different
from the previous icons?

When viewed on a black background, the lower right of the icon is
indistinguishable from the background.

They icon should look like what it's meant to convey. If it's a word processor,
and people still write documents, then boring as may seem, the background
should look like paper with text on it. The old writer icon worked much better.

The math icon has a decent looking small block of characters that look like
formulas, but why should they only occupy a portion of the icon. The look of
the icon should not be more important than information or understand-ability.

[For instance, Futura is one of my favorite fonts. I love the look of it, but
it cannot be used for highway signs--because it's not as readable as Highway
Gothic.]

You were quick to discern that the Windows Calculator icon was only a standard
calculator icon--because you could identify it. If it had a small bird on the
lower half, I don't think you would be so quick. : )

Much of commercial graphics is not art; it's formulaic. Paragraph: use serif
fonts. Legend: use san-serif fonts. There isn't enough room on an icon to lay
down a cathartic work. People need to be able to look at it, and immediately
know what it means.

"The frustration of seeing new icons is really temporary but you forget it
later on..."

Well, it's later-on, and I still think that they do not work. to mind now.

Some suggestions:
Use most of the icon space for symbols and information.
Pick one effect: clipped corner or shading.
Make paper look like paper.
Use solid symbols, not hollow ones.

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